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Faces and Places in Fashion: Robert Bronstein
No full textPart presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.Robert Bronstein is a fashion leader with 40 years running experience at major apparel companies. Mr. Bronstein was most recently President of Max Studio. Prior to this, he was President of Sales and Business Development at BCBGMAXAZRIA, as well as, Executive Vice President at French Connection Group. He has extensive experience in business and brand building, fashion merchandising, design, sales, administration, licensing, as well as, management. Mr. Bronstein is a cum laude graduate of New York University. He was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship and was accepted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Pablo Bronstein: Conservatism, or The Long Reign of Pseudo-Georgian Architecture
No full textPablo Bronstein: Conservatism, or The Long Reign of Pseudo-Georgian Architecture is the third in a series of RIBA commissions for the Architecture Gallery. This exhibition, presenting work by Pablo Bronstein with exhibition design by Apparata, is curated and researched by Shumi Bose.
Fifty new drawings of contemporary buildings – constructed during the second half of the twentieth century but in an ostensibly ‘Georgian’ style – will be on display for the first time, alongside a selection of rarely-seen historical material from the RIBA Collections.
The archival material chosen from the RIBA Drawings Collection situates Bronstein’s drawings in the context of architectural practice through time, revealing long-cherished ideals about social aspiration, urban fabric, identity and representation.
Pablo Bronstein has collaborated with architecture practice Apparata (Nicholas Lobo Brennan and Astrid Smitham) to transform the RIBA’s gallery space into a domestic environment in which the objects will be arranged
Bronstein, Phil: Moscone administration
No full textPhil Bronstein: I think that George’s, probably his entire administration of two years, but certainly at the beginning it was a function of herding cats. Suddenly you had turned on the lights and opened the doors and invited all these people who had no voice in government and no power, and suddenly they’re all in City Hall. I think there was pretty early on the kind of thing that we’ve seen with the Obama administration to a certain extent where there was a high expectation among certain communities. That “Okay, now we have the power.” And that included the Gay community which did have a fair amount of power particularly after district elections. I think that you had all the unhappiness that evolved out of the election campaign and the other half of the city, the western half and downtown half of the city maybe, sort of beating on his head. Again, from a day to day perspective, I didn’t cover City Hall so it’s hard for me to sorta tell you what the intricacies and logistics and details were, but it struck me that George was having a hell of a time trying to corral all these personalities and strong personalities. Many of them diverging and conflicting of each other. How do you make that happen? I think he was a very good legislator, and very good legislators have not necessarily proven to be good administrators, and that’s true probably everywhere, but certainly in San Francisco. I think he was struggling with that
Dataset for Stochastic electrodynamics simulations for collective atom response in optical cavities
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Lee, M. D., Jenkins, S. D., Bronstein, Y., & Ruostekoski, J. (2017). Stochastic electrodynamics simulations for collective atom response in optical cavities. Physical Review A. </span
Phyllis Bronstein (1939-2012)
No full textThis article memorializes Phyllis Bronstein (1939-2012). Bronstein was a feminist scholar, social and clinical psychologist, and activist for social justice. At the University of Vermont, she engaged almost 100 undergraduates in her research teams, mentored the research and professional development of 43 graduate students, and trained over 90 clinical psychology students in the feminist family therapy program she developed. Bronstein published over 45 chapters and journal articles, and three edited books. One stream of her scholarship focused on sociocultural factors in parenting, child and adolescent development, with studies conducted in the United States and Mexico. Bronstein is perhaps best known for two volumes on the integration of multicultural and gender issues into the psychology curriculum, coedited with Kathryn Quina and published by the American Psychological Association. Bronstein\u27s third stream of scholarship addressed sexist, racist, and ageist practices in academic and clinical professions
Interference between postural control and mental task performance in patients with vestibular disorder and healthy controls
No full textOBJECTIVES - To determine whether interference between postural control and mental task performance in patients with balance system impairment and healthy subjects is due to general capacity limitations, motor control interference, competition for spatial processing resources, or a combination of these.METHOD - Postural stability was assessed in 48 patients with vestibular disorder and 24 healthy controls while they were standing with eyes closed on (a) a stable and (b) a moving platform. Mental task performance was measured by accuracy and reaction time on mental tasks, comprising high and low load, spatial and non-spatial tasks. Interference between balancing and performing mental tasks was assessed by comparing baseline (single task) levels of sway and mental task performance with levels while concurrently balancing and carrying out mental tasks.RESULTS - As the balancing task increased in difficulty, reaction times on both low load mental tasks grew progressively longer and accuracy on both high load tasks declined in patients and controls. Postural sway was essentially unaffected by mental activity in patients and controls.CONCLUSIONS - It is unlikely that dual task interference between balancing and mental activity is due to competition for spatial processing resources, as levels of interference were similar in patients with vestibular disorder and healthy controls, and were also similar for spatial and non-spatial tasks. Moreover, the finding that accuracy declined on the high load tasks when balancing cannot be attributed to motor control interference, as no motor control processing is involved in maintaining accuracy of responses. Therefore, interference between mental activity and postural control can be attributed principally to general capacity limitations, and is hence proportional to the attentional demands of both tasks
Bronstein, Phil: Open questions about Moscone
No full textPhil Bronstein: I guess as a journalist and a born skeptic, there was a lot going on with George. His personal life, there was at least one federal investigation. There were people – for instance high up in the police department – who thought that he and Willie represented the devil. That everything that was wrong and bad and corrupt about this libertine San Francisco society was held by George Moscone and Willie Brown, and they were really after that. I don’t know to what extend the federal investigation was just an outgrowth of that, but I know there were a lot of open questions that survived after George’s death. And of course his manner of dying and he sort of became an icon in many ways certainly in the Gay community much more than is represented today in terms of it’s all Harvey. George did a lot for people in San Francisco. His heart was definitely open, and I think he was driven a lot by that even more so than some of his peers in the Burton machinery. I think George genuinely seemed to feel that way, but he was also a very ambitious politician. A very ambitious politician
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No full textBronstein enjoys a drink at near Maison Blanche in celebration of Christmas. One black and white photograph
Interview with Michaela Bronstein
No full textMichaela Bronstein is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Stanford University. Professor Bronstein researches the historical context of the novel, focusing on connections to Anglo-American modernism. In inspecting literature from 19th-century Russian and British authors to later 20th-century African and African-American authors, Professor Bronstein seeks to understand the transhistorical afterlives of literary works and examine how narratives that had a particular effect during their own times have become a part of more recent histories. In her most recent work, Professor Bronstein has delved into the modern television realm in order to connect the intimate temporalities of reading with the broad temporalities of reception.
Her publications include her book, Out of Context, as well as her manuscript-in-progress, Crimes for All Humanity: Revolution and the Modern Novel. She teaches a variety of English classes at Stanford such as Narrative and Narrative Theory, Serial Storytelling, and Literature and the Future.
Professor Bronstein attended the University of Oxford for her undergraduate education followed by graduate work in Yale University’s English Department. Prior to joining Stanford in 2016, she also worked as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Visiting Lecturer at MIT
Fully spectral partial shape matching
No full textWe propose an efficient procedure for calculating partial dense intrinsic correspondence between deformable shapes performed entirely in the spectral domain. Our technique relies on the recently introduced partial functional maps formalism and on the joint approximate diagonalization (JAD) of the Laplace-Beltrami operators previously introduced for matching non-isometric shapes. We show that a variant of the JAD problem with an appropriately modified coupling term (surprisingly) allows to construct quasi-harmonic bases localized on the latent corresponding parts. This circumvents the need to explicitly compute the unknown parts by means of the cumbersome alternating minimization used in the previous approaches, and allows performing all the calculations in the spectral domain with constant complexity independent of the number of shape vertices. We provide an extensive evaluation of the proposed technique on standard non-rigid correspondence benchmarks and show state-of-the-art performance in various settings, including partiality and the presence of topological noise
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